Alternatives to consider before investing in service meshes
4 alternatives to service meshes which – in our experience – are closer to what…
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Why We Selected Thanos for Long Term Metrics Storage
Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB Why…
HOWTO stop running containers as root
Running containers as root is a bad idea for security. This has been shown time…
Istio and OAuth2-Proxy in Kubernetes for microservice authentication
HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and…
DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a…
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The Difference Between Liveness and Readiness Probes in Kubernetes
Kubernetes is all about automation. And it can do a considerably better job the more information it has about your application. A key source of…
Why We Selected Thanos for Long Term Metrics Storage
Long-term Metrics Storage: Thanos vs. Cortex vs. InfluxDB vs. M3DB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. TimescaleDB
Why we selected Thanos among 28 Prometheus integrations.
HOWTO stop running containers as root
Running containers as root is a bad idea for security. This has been shown time and time again. Hackers find new ways of escaping out…
Leveraging Kubernetes to run databases, message queues and in-memory caches: How we built a truly portable platform
We increasingly meet CTOs and cloud architects in need of a secure platform that can run on multiple clouds or on-premise to meet customer requirements.…
Istio and OAuth2-Proxy in Kubernetes for microservice authentication
HOWTO use Istio and OAuth2-Proxy to secure all your micro-service endpoints in a centralized and easily managed way on Kubernetes.
DevOps: Why it is misunderstood & what it always should have been
We discuss the difference in skill sets between developers and platform operators. And what a realistic approach to DevOps truly means.
